Today’s Headlines
Talking Points as DC Prepares to Debate the Height Limit (GGW) Washingtonian Profiles Planning Director Harriet Tregoning, “Change Agent” … Meanwhile, Tregoning’s Critics Held a Dance Party to Protest Her (Washington City Paper) How to Make Your Chamber of Commerce a Machine for Cycling Activism (Advocacy Advance) A Book on the History — And the … Continued
By
Tanya Snyder
8:55 AM EST on November 5, 2013
- Talking Points as DC Prepares to Debate the Height Limit (GGW)
- Washingtonian Profiles Planning Director Harriet Tregoning, “Change Agent”
- … Meanwhile, Tregoning’s Critics Held a Dance Party to Protest Her (Washington City Paper)
- How to Make Your Chamber of Commerce a Machine for Cycling Activism (Advocacy Advance)
- A Book on the History — And the Future — of Complete Streets (Switchboard)
- These Three Bar Graphs Give the Best Argument Ever For Dedicated Bus Lanes (GGW)
- Virginia Supreme Court Affirms the Obvious: Tolls Are Not Taxes (Planetizen)
- Good Urban Design Made War-Torn Bogota a Happy City. What Can It Do For Your Town? (Guardian)
- Buses Pitted Against Trains in North Carolina Transit Planning Discussions (News & Observer)
- Has Anyone Named a Bike Path After Ray LaHood Yet? (Journal Star)
Tanya became Streetsblog's Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.
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